Improvement in letter-press copy-books



s. w. son's'sE.

LETTER-PRESS corv-maom No.169,491.j Patented Nov. z. 1875.

.rlttorney UNI'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAMUEL -W. SOESBE, OF GREENE, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN LETTER-PRESS COPY-BOOKSQ Specification forming art of Letters Patent N0. l 69,491. dated November 2, 1875; applica-tion filed August 28, 1875.

T0 all whom 'z't may concem:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. SOESBE, 0f Greene, in the eounty of Butler and State 0f Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Oopy and Letter Books; and I d0 hereby declare that the following is a full, eleam, and exact deseription of the coustruetion and operation 0f the sanne, reference being had t0 the annexed drawings, making a partof this speeifieation, and t0 the letters an l figures 0f reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the dmwings is a representation 0f (b front view 0f my book, and Fig. 2 is an edge view ot' the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view thereof, und Fig. 4 is a detail view.

Clhis invention has relation to improvements in letter-press eopy- Inmks,whereinsheetS ot copyin-g-paper and 0t' lettenpaper, alternating with each other, ill' bound together in book form, the latter beingdesigned t0 be Written 0n and the former to receive an in1- pression from the latter, whieh is then t0rn 0ut and forwarded to its address.

The nature 0f the invention eonsists in a sheet 0f double the width 0f a page 0f ordinary enrnmercial n0te 01 letter paper, which is bound up in bo( k form with, and is folrled over upon, a sheet of eopying-paper of half its size, whereby the necessity of using 0iled sheets is done away with, and a clear white surfaue is provided, eontmsting with which the ilnp1ession 011 the cop yhig-paper is rendered clearly legible, as will be hereinafter more clea-rly explained.

In the annexed dmwings, the letter A designates a sheet of eopying-paper 0f suitable dimensions, and B a pnge 0t letter-paper of double the size 0f the formen A snitable number of these sheets having been laid 130 gether alternately, a sheet of eopyingpaper und a sheet 0f writing-paper, the aggregatidn is bound in book for'1n, so that only 0ne 0f the edges 0f the said sheets is confined in the bin(ling. writing over the eopying pnper is designed to be f0lded ov'er the latter, thus inclosing ezwh sheet of copying between a; fold 0f writing paper, as shown in Fig. 3; but the exeess that is to say, the outer fold annay be in the same plane with the inner fold -a in which In. this position the excess of the hereunto subseribed 1ny name in the preslatter ease the boards wilhbe of sufficient size t0 inclnde the'outer sheet when extende-d.

I use my combined letter and press c0pybook in the following manner, t0 Wit: The book being opened, as is custoxnary, the matter is written upon the upper side of the oute1 f0ld a 0f leaf B. The eopying-leaf is then dnly web and the excess 0f moisture remn.ved, ancl the seid sheet is then folded over it, so als t0 bring the writing-covered face et the seid. fold in contact therewith. The book is then pnt into a letter-press and the writing 0n fold a{ transferred to copy-paper sheet'A. The impression being tanken, the book is removed from the press und the fold a separated fron1 the inner fold of sheet.

'Ihe advuntages 0f this eonstruetion are, first, that the inner fold a serves t0 prevent moisture from being absorbed by the pressuopy sheet below; secondly, that the use 0f the oiled. sheets usually employed is rendered unnecessa-ry; and, thirdly, that a white surface is at all times below the preSs-copy sheet,

and allows the writing thereon-to be clearly dietinguished. The. inner fold a may also be used f0r reeeiving the brief 0f a letzter t0 be atterward enlarged 0n by an engrossing-clerk. Lamm aware that a memorandum-book with donble folding leaves is not new, and I am also awnre it is 0ld to alternate the copy and writing leaves ot' a letter-press book bat What I clain1 as new, and (lesire to secur by Letters Patent, is

A coxnbined press copy and letzter book,eonsisting of alternate leaves of writing and eopying paper bonnd in book forma, each sheet of writing-paper being double the width 0t' the copying-leaf, whereby the leaf written upon proteets the blank copyingleaf beneath it t'r0m molsture, anti a White sutt'uee is zu: all times below the presseopy leat', allowing the writing thefeon t0 be more easily read, substantially s .deseribed.

In testimony that I clai1n the above I have ence 0f tw0 witnesses.

- SAMUEL W. SOESBE. Witnesses:

E. W. SOESBE, T. F. HEERY. 

